SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp., founded in 2002, is an American space technology company and a dominant launch provider. It designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, including the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Dragon spacecraft, and Starship. SpaceX partners with organizations like NASA and the United States Armed Forces and is known for its advancements in reusable launch vehicles, human spaceflight, and satellite constellation technology like Starlink. Key words: launch provider, reusable rockets, space exploration, Starlink, Falcon, Dragon, Starship, NASA.
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SpaceX plans to leverage near-constant solar energy and deep-space cooling for orbital computing workloads.
The Falcon 9 mission carrying EchoStar XXV is SpaceX’s first customer launch following a sequence of 12 consecutive Starlink missions after Crew-12.
SpaceX plans to combine the Starship launch vehicle, Starlink connectivity, and xAI processing to reduce the cost of AI inference compared with terrestrial solutions.
SpaceX has shifted its long-term strategy toward space-based computing.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 was the only rocket with the launch cadence and reliability to guarantee orbital slots on short notice as of early 2026.
SpaceX and Blue Origin receive multi-year funding to build and test lunar landers that are not yet operational.
This mission is SpaceX’s first customer launch after a sequence of 12 consecutive Starlink missions that followed Crew-12 about one month earlier.
Charles W. Ergen supports the view that a $1-trillion-plus valuation for SpaceX is plausible.
SpaceX has over 11,000 active Starlink satellites.
Ship catch is the recovery system planned by SpaceX to recover Starship vehicles after reentry.
SpaceX will exercise new propellant loading operations.
The Vast-1 mission will ferry a crew of four aboard a SpaceX Dragon for a 30-day stay focused on materials science and biotechnology.
SpaceX performed as many orbital launches in 2025 as the rest of the world combined.
Starship V3 will feature SpaceX docking adapters designed to enable Starships to transfer fuel in space.
SpaceX merged with xAI on February 2, 2026.
Amazon signed a contract with SpaceX in late 2023 to launch three Falcon 9 missions.
SpaceX’s Starlink constellation contains roughly an order of magnitude more satellites than the total number of operational satellites in orbit when SpaceX began launching Starlink.
SpaceX and Blue Origin hold central roles in Artemis as providers of Human Landing Systems (HLS).
The Human Landing System is split between SpaceX’s Starship variant and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon as of the revised Artemis plan.
SpaceX's Starship uses liquid methane as a propellant.